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Teachers and Kids at DOD Schools Get Good News

by Deirdre Blakeposted Aug 9 2013 3:49PM

Area kids that go to one of four DOD schools at Quantico and the one at Dahlgren in King George won't miss time from class this fall after all.
The automatic federal spending would have made employees there take five unpaid days off between the start of school and September 30th. Virginia Senator Mark Warner is among those praising the decision by Congress to exempt the schools from this year's furloughs.